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Roll Back Subway Fares

SIMON BREINES ();

September 13, 1971,

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The threatened increase in the subway fare would do a double disservice. It would add to the already over-inflated cost of living of the working people of the city. And it would tend, as these increases always have, to change the riding habit of significant numbers of New Yorkers from mass transportation to private cars.

September 13, 1971

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